Stevertigo wrote:
This is where English, I think is in the minority, and will typically tend to reject like the metric system any attempt at mundification.
I'm fairly confident that the majority of the world's English speakers use the SI system: UK, Australia, India, etc.
SAMPA isn't ideal. But it's a one-to-one correspondence with IPA, so at some future date when IPA can easily be used in Wikipedia, we could have some sort of script switch everything over.
I've explained elsewhere why DIY pronunciation guides are a bad idea.